[Avodah] hayom yom rishon....

[Zev Sero]

On 14/08/2011 3:10 AM, Harvey Benton wrote:
> i was told that the reason we are allowed to use the babylonian names of
> our months (although) they (10 of 12) were names of babylonian gods

AFAIK only one is the name of a god, and it's one that's named in Tanach
so it's OK.  In any case, I suspect that the god was named after the
month (or both after the same other thing) rather than the other way
around.


> is that we are allowed to use the names of gods/months, that appear in
> the gemmara??

That's not a reason; who gave the amora'im the right to do so in the first
place?  We can use names used in Tanach, but where did you hear that this
extended to the gemara?  Rather, the fact that Chazal used the names proves
that there must be a heter.


> 1 is this true; 2. would this reasoning (at all?) apply to our using the
> names we currently use for our weekdays

And for five of our months, for that matter (Jan, and Mar-Jun).  And no,
they're not used in Tanach *or* the gemara, so how could this reasoning
apply to them?  Rather, they're allowed because these gods no longer have
any worshippers.


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